Past work suggests that executive functioning relies on glucose as a depletable energy, such that executive functioning uses a relatively large amount of glucose and is impaired when glucose is low. Glucose from the bloodstream is one energy source for the brain, and glucose stored in the brain as glycogen is another. A review of the literature on glycogen suggests that executive functioning uses it in much the same way as glucose, such that executive functioning uses glycogen and is impaired when glycogen is low. Findings on stress, physical persistence ...

Unpublished Findings on Observational Learning Action SelfViews Attention Heuristics Emotion and Crime Findings indicate that people more readily mimic people who exhibit efficient, rather than inefficient, behavior, that having used self-control increases passivity, attention to food, heuristic thought, and criminal intent. Regulating emotions impairs self-control, and using self-control impairs emotion regulation.